This study provides objective criteria to guide decision-making regarding team composition during the regulation of inter-hospital transfers for infants with moderate-to-severe bronchiolitis. FiO2 and pCO2 thresholds measured at the initial call can help identify cases requiring physician presence, while allowing most transfers to be safely conducted by nurse-led teams. These results support the development of standardised triage protocols and strengthen the role of advanced paediatric critical care nurses in retrieval medicine. Integrating such evidence-based criteria into practice could optimise human resources, maintain safety and improve response times in paediatric emergency transport systems.
Gaudaire et al. (Mon,) studied this question.